Per this very chat, clearly were are not in the best possible timeline if Cistulli is still alive.

Blue Cat

1:30

I've had a big WW1 obsession of late, which includes discovering that the standard storyline taught in schools about the war is, in many respects, demonstratively false given new research in last 20 years. Have you ever had a pet topic where you've found that the common narrative is critically flawed at a factual (v opinion) level?

Dan Szymborski

1:30

Hmm, I'm not sure really

1:30

The idea that Hitler could've won the WWII is still obnoxious

1:31

He could have won WWII if he wasn't Hitler.

1:31

But he *was* Hitler and he made ideological choices that made it impossible to win

1:31

A mediterranean strategy would hvae been far better than getting involved with the soviet union

1:32

And during invasions of Soviet Union, Germans actually acting like liberators given Stalin's enemies would have been much smarter